Composite container for bottles



Dec. 1, 1931. G. R. WYMAN 1,834,668

COMPOSITE CONTAINER FOR BOTTLES Filed Nov. 21, 1929 WN ZENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. '1, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE E. WYMAN, OF EAST WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BIRD & SOE, INC., OF EAST WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS COMPOSITE CONTAINER FOR BOTTLES Application filed November 21, 1929. Serial No. 408,754.

This invention relates to a composite container for bottles and has for its object to provide an improved bottle container which is relatively inexpensive, light in weight, and

at the same time is durable and serves to adequately protect the bottles therein contained. Other objects will appear and be more fully, pointed out in the specification and claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved composite container for bottles, ith a part of one wall section broken away for the purpose of showing more completely the construction of the same; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the container.

Referring to the drawings, this improved bottle container consists, in its preferred form, of a wooden frame made up of endwall sections 2, having hand holes 2a as shown, the end-walls being spaced from each other by the two rails 8 to which the end-wall sections 2 are suitably attached as by nails or screws 10. The two remaining wall sections and bottom of the container are made of fiberboard 4, and preferably in a single continuous piece of waterproofed fiberboard which is simply folded at the two lower longitudinal edges of the container as clearly shown in the drawings. The fiber is suitably attached to the end sections 2 and rails 8, for example by nails 6.

Within the container is placed a suitable series of separators 12 which serve to space apart the bottles placed in the container in the usual manner as well knownin the art.

I prefer, however, to make my separators, as

well as side walls and bottom of the con tainers, out of waterproofed fiberboard for 40 the purpose of lightness and simplicity of manufacture.

As will clearly appear from Fig. 2 wherein a bottle 14 is shown as in place the rail 8 overhangs the bulge of the bottle. This construction permits of a reinforced or composite fiber container of smaller size than the wooden containers now in use and at the same time a much more durable container than an ordi nary fiber box.

It will be seen therefore that in my improved composite container for bottles I have provided a structure which achieves its object and is a material improvement over structures now in use for the same purpose.

Having described my invention what I wish to claim and secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A composite container for bottles having wooden end-wall sections, wooden longitudinal rails extending within the confines of and between, and separating said sections, and attached at the upper corners of the same, longitudinal wall sections and a bottom formed of a single piece of fiberboard, and separators adapted to space apart bottles placed in said container.

2. A composite container for bottles having wooden end-wall sections, wooden longitudinal rails extending within the confines of and between said sections to separate the same, and having their ends attached at the upper corners of the same, and longitudinal wall sections and a bottom formed of fiberboard attached to the outside edges of said end-wall sections and' attached to the outside surfaces of said rails.

GEORGE R. WYMAN. 

